Geothermal power used to be limited to volcanic areas. But advances in exploration and drilling technology mean huge new areas can be tapped.
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There’s a lot of hot rock in the way, and sooner or later your hole would collapse.
With the fourth significant shortage of helium in a decade continuing, companies and researchers are looking for alternative sources.
California was thought to be an exception, a place where oil field operations and tectonic faults apparently coexisted without much problem. Not any more.
Living near oil and gas production can affect mental health, driving stress and feelings of depression.
There was something unusual about the 2011 earthquake which caused so much damage in Japan. We should now look at other risk zones to see if something similar could happen there too.
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Professor of Structural Geology & Tectonics, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
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